The Pirate Bay Forced to Leave Sweden for Norway, Spain

The Pirate Bay has hoisted its sails and left its Swedish home for less legally threatening waters, handing its responsibilities over to other parties in Norway and Spain.

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In true swashbuckling fashion, The Pirate Bay has hoisted its sails and left its Swedish home for less legally threatening waters, setting up shop in Norway and Spain.

The Pirate Bay has never been confined to one location; the file-sharing site has been hosted in various countries over the years, finding new homes when one country became intolerant of its activities, TorrentFreak reported.

"It will be interesting to see who is now blamed for hosting TPB," a Pirate Bay spokeswoman told TorrentFreak. "In the end, maybe the anti-interneterians will understand that they can't win a fight when they have the people against them."

The Pirate Bay transferred much of its operations to the cloud in October, but left the Swedish Pirate Party's Web hosting services intact. But when its online arm received a "threatening letter" from the Swedish Rights Alliance last week, the organization was forced to sever ties with the Bay by Feb. 26 or face legal action.

"We have enjoyed the great company of the Swedish Pirate party," the organization wrote in a Facebook post. "As they have gotten a severe legal threat (that will cost a lot to defend against) we've taken the decision to move on to Norway and Spain."

Think of it as more of a vacation, though. The Pirate Bay said this is not a permanent move, and that in the coming weeks, it will announce major under-the-hood changes to the site.

Without revealing any details, the organization simply said that "it will change a lot of things for people," hinting at enormous modifications. "When the bomb goes off, remember that we did it with love in our hearts and with hope of humanity," the post continued. "We believe we can change the world by doing this."

For now, the site lives on under the newly formed Norwegian Pirate Party and the Catalonian Pirate Party, jointly called "The Hydra Bay" today in celebration.

"It is wonderful to be able to pass on the baton to two sister parties," leader of the Swedish Pirate Party, Anna Troberg, said in a statement. "It is [a] testament to the pirate movement's maturity and strength. We help each other and work with our sight set firmly on the future."

Stephanie began as a PCMag reporter in May 2012. She moved to New York City from Frederick, Md., where she worked for four years as a multimedia reporter at the second-largest daily newspaper in Maryland. She interned at Baltimore magazine and graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (in the town of Indiana, in the state of Pennsylvania) with a degree in journalism and mass communications.
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